What's the MSRP of your pocket's contents?(knives only)

I had a Micra on my key ring and a BM 450/Park Avenue in my pocket so I'd say an MSRP of $135.00 (give or take a little).
 
Right Pocket- Spyderco Delica FRN VG-10: $66.95
Left Pocket- Victorinox Soldier: $25.00
Total MSRP: $91.95

What I paid ordering online: $43.99+$18.75=$62.74

Total Saved: $29.21

Moral of the story: Don't ever pay MSRP without good reason!:D
-Kevin
 
peacefuljeffrey, if your latest comment was directed at me, here's my reasons...

I'm fully ambi, including writing both both. I take full advantage of that.

I carry a work knife on each side, a sheeple carry on each side, a multi(pretty much dead centre but to right side of loop, either hand), neck carry is 24/7(sleep with it on, only off to shower), BM hook only goes on when I leave the house.

The card is for the rare instances where I leave the house with nothing in my pockets, I still have the card and my neck. I have done it a few times.

The twin fixed are also a case of ambi, and not having to worry about locks.

The smallest I'll take my carry down to is twin fixed, multi and neck.

I have been known to carry 10 on me, and I use every single one throughout my day. I cook with them, I eat with them(today I had pizza and forgot a fork[homemade]. used my 'fly as a scoop), I use them all day at work and around the house and yard at home.

If I was going to list the contents of my collection, I'd shock a number of ppl. 14yr collection, a lot of that is keychain ones. If I can find the box of the old ones, I have over 80. I rotate about 20 of them.
 
CRK Large Classic wood inlay Sebenza customized $482
Swisstech M2 keychain pliers $15
Microlight $10
David Winston "Key" knife $50
Neil Blackwood Credit Card Knife $65
Zippo lighter $15
$637

ow.
 
Beware: snippage conducted...
Originally posted by VampyreWolf
peacefuljeffrey, if your latest comment was directed at me, here's my reasons...

I'm fully ambi, including writing both both. I take full advantage of that.

I carry a work knife on each side, a sheeple carry on each side, a multi(pretty much dead centre but to right side of loop, either hand), neck carry is 24/7(sleep with it on, only off to shower), BM hook only goes on when I leave the house.
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VW... yeah, kinda, I guess I was singling you out. :P Hope you don't mind. Fully ambidextrous, huh? Cool. I'm not near fully, and my writing is bad enough with my usual hand (which oddly enough is my left, though I'm righty at everything else). On occasion I try to force myself to do things "opposite hand" because I believe you can build up the skill to be ambidextrous. It's just about training the brain and nerves and muscles.

Oh, and you wear all those knives but you don't SHOWER with your neck knife on?! For SHAME! I don't carry 1/8 the monetary value of knives you do, but my Spike never leaves my neck, not even in the shower, the bath, the pool, the ocean, the Intracoastal Waterway -- nothin'! I worry for the dude who decides to attack me Psycho-style through the shower curtain, 'cause that Spike is in one shaaarp condition, and boy is it sturdy!

---Jeffrey
 
I have a slight advantage when it comes to ambi. I was born left handed, had 5yrs of that, then school forced me to be right handed. Every time I used my left, I was hit. By the time they gave us a choice in about grade 6 or 7, it was too late to switch right back to left handed. Spent the next 5 yrs getting my left hand equal to my right.

Folks didn't know I had my left hand back fully until about a month ago, and it was more or less a "knew you'd go back to left hand" thing. I was writing a note with my left hand.

Seems that out of all the family on one side, my grandparents start the oddity. grampa like me, the other and ambi... grama was a teacher and nurse and abandoned her left hand... of the 5 children and 15 grandchildren on that side, I'm fully ambi now but was born left, my sister has given up her left hand [was born ambi], and my younger cousin was born left, and was just finally given the choice this year in school, working on his left again. skipped the rest of them.

The reason I don't carry my 'fly in water is that it's a bit&#99h to dry out. Took it in the pool, got it rinsed when I got out, but it was dripping water for about an hour till I got home to the air compressor and lube. Been looking at getting a spyderco c35 Q SE for a 24/7, as they dry easily and the 440c is pretty much rust proof.
 
VW, if the neck knife is gonna be hanging in a sheath anyway, why have the extra step involved in opening a folder? Why not go with a fixed blade neck knife that you don't have to worry about drying out?

Since it appears that price is no object for you ;) I might suggest a Microtech Medallion, or a Benchmade TK-1 (Tether Knife). The Medallion is pricier, but the TK-1 is only about $70. Down the cheaper end of the spectrum is the Cold Steel "The Spike," for under $30 I believe, and the Timberline Mini Pit Bull for $28 and the CRKT Neck P.E.C.K. for, as some have mentioned, under $15 on ebay. The choices for good neck knives keep growing. (Many, sadly, are made of AUS6M which, while I don't know steels super well, is the softer brother of some better steels. Hardness is listed on Knifecenter at 55-57. I guess the AUS6M is responsible for the utterly affordable prices of these knives.)

I'll give you 14 days. After that, I don't wanna hear that you do any more bathing knifeless. :p

---Jeffrey
 
Stripey went outside the rules a bit and listed his (non-knife) Zippo lighter... but that brings up an interesting point.

When people see me with either a knife or my own Zippo lighter, they are sometimes inclined to ask why I have either. (To us, the answer is, "DUH, you SEE me CUTTING/BURNING something with it -- isn't the answer obvious? I USE it!")

When some doofus who asks to borrow my lighter questions why I have one (since I'm a non-smoker), I usually just tell him that I consider it a debt of gratitude I owe to my caveman ancestors who first harnessed the power of fire. I promise now to honor their legacy and never be without it. The same goes for my edged tools. I figure that now that man has acquired the ability to make and use tools, it behooves us to not trivialize the importance of that by neglecting to have them at the ready. (Hmmm... "At the Ready." That sounds like a great name for a knife!) :p

So all us knife nuts should really always have fire (Zippo, etc.) on us at all times too.

---Jeffrey
 
peacefuljeffrey:

I can think of a good reason to have a folder as a neck knife: legality. Here in Kalifornia, it is illegal (and a felony) to have a concealed fixed blade knife. If I were to carry a neck knife (my dog tags are enough for me thanks), 'twould have to be a folder. Why give a cop an excuse to bust you? It may be that the Canadian province where VampyreWolf lives has similar restrictions.
 
Originally posted by enkidu
peacefuljeffrey:

I can think of a good reason to have a folder as a neck knife: legality. Here in Kalifornia, it is illegal (and a felony) to have a concealed fixed blade knife. If I were to carry a neck knife (my dog tags are enough for me thanks), 'twould have to be a folder. Why give a cop an excuse to bust you? It may be that the Canadian province where VampyreWolf lives has similar restrictions.
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I hadn't thought of that. I must just be spoiled by living in Florida where the law makes a lot more sense than it does in kalifornia. My sympathies for living under that regime. Are you working to change it, or leave it?

---Jeffrey
 
Canadian knife laws can be summed up in 1 sentence... no autos, balis, or pushdaggers.

I carry a folder for a neck knife simply because of how it hangs. I have it hanging so the pivot hits just under my sternum. I can lay flat on my knife with no problems. Fixed for neck carry tend to hang too low when I put the top (in the case of a fixed, the point) in that same spot.

I looked at the medallion, but it just didn't work for me. I prefer to carry something on my neck that I can abuse. I have done a full day of work using just the 'fly. I did it for 3 months while I was still working at Burger King, and that was maintanence, cutting(de-flapping) 200+ boxes a night, on top of chemicals and stock... you soon learn that anything with a hotspot gets real uncomfortable.

price? I'm in the 200usd factory range, have a 250cdn custom being done end of july/early august(and another 50cdn for a sheath)... most production knives can be found in that range. Sebenza doesn't appeal to me. Remember, canada is about 1.5 cdn per usd... 1.38 and shipping. that 70usd for a tether knife is 120ish cdn.

I'm usually with at least the standard sized zippo on me, if not my pocket welding torch(butane lighter refills, 1200f at point of cone)... and I don't smoke. I've had ppl try to force it a couple times, only to see thier smokes ripped up and given back in a pile of shreddings.

enkidu> gotta love Canada. I can carry concealed, though if I get searched for something, it's not a good idea. 19, not even so much as a speeding ticket... I'm pretty much in the clear. I know enough of our city police by name from working with them in Air Cadets and scouting, and cadets has given me the right kind of attitude that authority figures have no problem with me.
 
Carrying all goodies from fellow forumites today...

Jason Burns (evaluation use) 'Mission' wallet ($0, thanks Jason), with Cammilus 901B inserted ($10 USN auction)

Leatherman Squirt from Bill Seigle ($0, in trade for rifle mag, thanks Bill), and a large Spydie Goddard from ExamonLyf ($25, thanks Pete!)

Total damage to the pocket, $35! You guys are the best, and thanks again!

Shel
 
I don't know the MSRPs of the knives I have on me, but I can total them up anyway:

Brusletto Balder $18
SAK Tinker $15
SAK Cybertool 41 $50
SAK Rucksack $30

$113
 
Right now, $650. Obenauf small framelock and CRK Mnandi in African Blackwood. It varies from $600 to $1,200.
 
peacefuljeffrey:

Living in Kalifornia does suck in many ways. Unfortunately, given my line of work, there isn't much employment outside of the area (actually, there isn't much IN the area either...) and most of the places I would go would be even worse with regard to personal freedom (NY, CT, MA :( ) TX would be better, though.

VampyreWolf:

I assume by carry concealed you mean knives not firearms. :).

Oh and my pocket's contents are still MSRP ~$206 :)
 
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